This is how I use Gmail: When I'm on my Mac or my Windows laptop, or a foreign box, I use Gmail via their webmail interface. But I when I turn on my main Linux box, it fetchmails everything, and I read and respond in Pine. I generally reserve my heavy usage for these times. My fetched mail is automatically Trashed, and I clean it out the next time I connect to the webmail.
The advantages: I have a stable email address that's fairly well spam-filtered, and isn't tied to my ISP; I also get secure connections (with POP, SMTP, and HTTPS). Meanwhile, I don't have to turn on my main machine, and don't have to set up multiple mail clients, but can still get the benefits of old-school mail management while being able to access my mail from anywhere.
No. "Reported" implies that what's being reported is fact. In this case, it's opinion. Something like "Wall Street Journal says Yahoo Mail superior to Gmail" would be closer to the mark. But really, that's a bit wordy for a headline. The question mark in the title serves the purpose of identifying this as an opinion piece. And your interpretation of this as "biased" is frankly ridiculous.
I got the joke, such as it was. I see you have a very evolved sense of humor yourself. But I guess I was really replying to the grandparent, who was complaining about the cost; my point being, the cost is really no different from Windows'. (The value is another question.)
The new controller is a radical departure from traditional controller types.
I wonder if people have forgotten that what's now considered the "traditional controller type" was itself basically invented by Nintendo, as a radical departure from the then-traditional joystick.
P.S. I hope you weren't serious when you said "Looking back on it now, I can see that I deserved *something* for disobeying a direct order...". No, you didn't.
I was with you right up until the part about private schools vs. public. I see no reason to expect better from a private school. I went to Catholic schools until late in the sixth grade, and many of the teachers there were unbelievably harsh, cruel, and stupid, particularly the nuns. I never faced anything as bad when I later went to public schools.
Exactly! There was a really narrow window between 2000 and XP. Yet, 2000 is still showing up, even on a lot of new corporate systems. Why is that? It's a conscious rejection of XP, in favor of 2000.
with Jdray. "Sterile", or humane? And home appliances would of course be much less centralized than the current system. But more importantly, artificial meat could be one key to a sustainable future.
A lot of people have moral qualms about killing animals for food, and their numbers are growing. I think this growth may, ironically, be correlated with increasing urbanization: as fewer people are involved in the process of raising -- and butchering -- farm animals, there's less desensitization to it. Urbanites experience animals most often as pets, rather than as servants or foodstock. Of course, most of these people still eat meat -- but even that is a less visceral experience than it used to be, with undifferentiated meat prodcuts like hamburger and chicken "nuggets" making up a large portion of what's consumed. So, although it's become easier for the average person to avoid confronting the realities of the slaughterhouse, it makes more of an impact when they finally do.
I think these changes are all to the good. I'm not (yet) a vegetarian myself, but I gotta admit, I'm sympathetic. And if artificial meat makes the switch easier, I think that's wonderful.
There's an even deeper problem with (natural) meat, though -- one which I even believe could, in combination with the spread of vegetarianism, lead to its complete abandonment within the next century. The problem is the cost. Not simply the monetary cost, which is an imperfect reflection of the true cost; but the fact that meat is incredibly inefficient. You can feed grain to cattle, and then feed the cattle to people; or you can feed grain directly to people. Skipping the cattle step lets you feed several times as many people. The price of meat already reflects this, to some extent, and it's only going to go up. But one of the largely uncounted costs is deforestation, as more and more land is cleared to create grazing grounds for larger and larger herds. This is a major factor in the destruction of the Amazon rainforest, with very far-reaching consequences. We haven't paid much of that cost, yet -- but one way or another, we will. The sooner we can replace those herds with artificial meat, the less the blow will be.
I can think of several reasons. The ISP's outgoing mail server may do filtering, so it won't pass on as much spam. Even more likely, outgoing mail will be limited in some way (number of messages or total bytes per user over some interval of time) -- spammers want to send millions of messages. Finally, by sending large volumes of spam through the ISP's relay, you call attention to yourself more quickly than by sending directly. A non-relaying bot thus stays up longer, on average.
I've found to my distress that even kill -9 sometimes doesn't work in Linux. I don't remember it being this way years ago; only in more recent versions. It seems to happen when the hardware fails to respond -- in my case, mainly my DVD+R.
IT'S NOT A SAFE VEHICLE, YOU TWIT. Ever heard of rollover? And yes, the fact that you make the road less safe for everyone else is your fault. Not only should no one be forced to buy an SUV just to try and protect themselves against you; but not everyone could afford to even if they wanted to.
I'd like to ban them. Of course that will never fly in this country. So all we can do is try to educate people (e.g., pointing out that they aren't really safer), and maybe hope for some positive fallout from higher gas prices.
I'd also like to think some municipalities could ban them within their borders (after all, they're supposed to be off-road vehicles; so let them stay out in the country), but I doubt even that would work.
Seems to me like a station wagon would suit your needs better than an SUV, then, and be less of an imposition on everyone else. Too bad they don't make them anymore.
It's a total waste of bits. Blind listening tests prove that lossy codecs can achieve the same subjective effect at a much lower bitrate. Lossless trading (typically of live concert recordings that had shitty audio to begin with) is little more than an audiophile affectation, on a par with all the nonsense they waste money on in the analog domain. And as for local storage: I can get 69 CD's worth of music onto one DVD with LAME-generated MP3s. I could get, what 14 CD's worth with FLAC?
MP3's popularity is due to its huge legacy base, both in players and encoded files. AFAICT, no one cares about any "next generation MP3 formats"; the preferred newer formats are WMA, AAC, or (yes) Ogg Vorbis, while existing MP3 files and players aren't going anywhere. So, where exactly is the problem?
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The advantages: I have a stable email address that's fairly well spam-filtered, and isn't tied to my ISP; I also get secure connections (with POP, SMTP, and HTTPS). Meanwhile, I don't have to turn on my main machine, and don't have to set up multiple mail clients, but can still get the benefits of old-school mail management while being able to access my mail from anywhere.
No. "Reported" implies that what's being reported is fact. In this case, it's opinion. Something like "Wall Street Journal says Yahoo Mail superior to Gmail" would be closer to the mark. But really, that's a bit wordy for a headline. The question mark in the title serves the purpose of identifying this as an opinion piece. And your interpretation of this as "biased" is frankly ridiculous.
I got the joke, such as it was. I see you have a very evolved sense of humor yourself. But I guess I was really replying to the grandparent, who was complaining about the cost; my point being, the cost is really no different from Windows'. (The value is another question.)
Cute, but of course XP also costs ~$100 (or more, especially for Pro). It's just that the cost is often bundled in the cost of a new system.
To the questions posed in the summary, my answers would be "No", and "No". To elaborate: "Probably not", and "Definitely not".
It's some tight code, no doubt, but there are still a lot of bugs.
We've got one already: OpenGL. Microsoft doesn't want you to use it.
P.S. I hope you weren't serious when you said "Looking back on it now, I can see that I deserved *something* for disobeying a direct order...". No, you didn't.
I was with you right up until the part about private schools vs. public. I see no reason to expect better from a private school. I went to Catholic schools until late in the sixth grade, and many of the teachers there were unbelievably harsh, cruel, and stupid, particularly the nuns. I never faced anything as bad when I later went to public schools.
I heard that on the news, and thought, "WTF does that mean?". I still don't know.
Exactly! There was a really narrow window between 2000 and XP. Yet, 2000 is still showing up, even on a lot of new corporate systems. Why is that? It's a conscious rejection of XP, in favor of 2000.
with Jdray. "Sterile", or humane? And home appliances would of course be much less centralized than the current system. But more importantly, artificial meat could be one key to a sustainable future.
A lot of people have moral qualms about killing animals for food, and their numbers are growing. I think this growth may, ironically, be correlated with increasing urbanization: as fewer people are involved in the process of raising -- and butchering -- farm animals, there's less desensitization to it. Urbanites experience animals most often as pets, rather than as servants or foodstock. Of course, most of these people still eat meat -- but even that is a less visceral experience than it used to be, with undifferentiated meat prodcuts like hamburger and chicken "nuggets" making up a large portion of what's consumed. So, although it's become easier for the average person to avoid confronting the realities of the slaughterhouse, it makes more of an impact when they finally do.
I think these changes are all to the good. I'm not (yet) a vegetarian myself, but I gotta admit, I'm sympathetic. And if artificial meat makes the switch easier, I think that's wonderful.
There's an even deeper problem with (natural) meat, though -- one which I even believe could, in combination with the spread of vegetarianism, lead to its complete abandonment within the next century. The problem is the cost. Not simply the monetary cost, which is an imperfect reflection of the true cost; but the fact that meat is incredibly inefficient. You can feed grain to cattle, and then feed the cattle to people; or you can feed grain directly to people. Skipping the cattle step lets you feed several times as many people. The price of meat already reflects this, to some extent, and it's only going to go up. But one of the largely uncounted costs is deforestation, as more and more land is cleared to create grazing grounds for larger and larger herds. This is a major factor in the destruction of the Amazon rainforest, with very far-reaching consequences. We haven't paid much of that cost, yet -- but one way or another, we will. The sooner we can replace those herds with artificial meat, the less the blow will be.
I can think of several reasons. The ISP's outgoing mail server may do filtering, so it won't pass on as much spam. Even more likely, outgoing mail will be limited in some way (number of messages or total bytes per user over some interval of time) -- spammers want to send millions of messages. Finally, by sending large volumes of spam through the ISP's relay, you call attention to yourself more quickly than by sending directly. A non-relaying bot thus stays up longer, on average.
I've found to my distress that even kill -9 sometimes doesn't work in Linux. I don't remember it being this way years ago; only in more recent versions. It seems to happen when the hardware fails to respond -- in my case, mainly my DVD+R.
IT'S NOT A SAFE VEHICLE, YOU TWIT. Ever heard of rollover? And yes, the fact that you make the road less safe for everyone else is your fault. Not only should no one be forced to buy an SUV just to try and protect themselves against you; but not everyone could afford to even if they wanted to.
That's it exactly. It's all about deluded self-perceptions:
Station wagon = family = square
SUV = power = manly
That's the thinking, even if it's subconscious. And what an unbelievable crock it is.
I'd like to ban them. Of course that will never fly in this country. So all we can do is try to educate people (e.g., pointing out that they aren't really safer), and maybe hope for some positive fallout from higher gas prices.
I'd also like to think some municipalities could ban them within their borders (after all, they're supposed to be off-road vehicles; so let them stay out in the country), but I doubt even that would work.
Or issues like my reduced ability to see in traffic, or to park; or my reduced safety from having to share the road with these monsters.
Seems to me like a station wagon would suit your needs better than an SUV, then, and be less of an imposition on everyone else. Too bad they don't make them anymore.
What's even funnier is that people just assume the description is right, when if they checked, they'd see it was Flash, not Shockwave.
It's a total waste of bits. Blind listening tests prove that lossy codecs can achieve the same subjective effect at a much lower bitrate. Lossless trading (typically of live concert recordings that had shitty audio to begin with) is little more than an audiophile affectation, on a par with all the nonsense they waste money on in the analog domain. And as for local storage: I can get 69 CD's worth of music onto one DVD with LAME-generated MP3s. I could get, what 14 CD's worth with FLAC?
How many people need to say this before some of them get modded redundant?
MP3's popularity is due to its huge legacy base, both in players and encoded files. AFAICT, no one cares about any "next generation MP3 formats"; the preferred newer formats are WMA, AAC, or (yes) Ogg Vorbis, while existing MP3 files and players aren't going anywhere. So, where exactly is the problem?